To avoid pain at all costs forces us to reject half the lessons life can teach. --Jan Pishok
If we could remember that every experience we'll ever have is unique and offers us a lesson we will grow from, we'd accept them all with far greater ease. What's there to be afraid of anyway? God is never absent. In fact, God is present during every experience. Remembering this makes us courageous as we walk through the turmoil that interrupts the peaceful times.
Before coming to this program, we feared most of the situations that called to us, and understandably so. We were often trying to do the improbable without the wisdom or the guidance that might have guaranteed success. By taking the Third Step every morning of our lives, as has been suggested, we can positively influence the outcome of every experience we'll have. Hallelujah!
I will not avoid any experience today. I'll simply remember that God is present and that I need to know what calls to me.
First, I want to thank you personally for turning some incorrect thinking around yesterday. Thank You!
Second, I don't get the Chainey Joke????? and
Thirdly, I think it is on Page 78, of the Big Book, asking God for guidance in today. Ask to be shown what His will is for me today. Third Step.
Honestly, I have not been practicing that, and I thank you again, for you guidance, this is only a daily reprieve Program. Sometimes it takes a gentle nudge from a fellow Alcoholic, to say, hay, yoo hoo, get back on track, will you please. And i have listened, and I have taken the loving nudge to heart.
Asking God what His will is for me today is actually the 11th Step - "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."
We're still learning the Steps, eh?
love in recovery,
amanda
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do your best and God does the rest, a step at a time
